Global research airport
Global research airport
Cranfield is the only university in Europe with its own fully-operational airport, aircraft and air navigation service provider on campus. This global research airport is a national asset for the UK.
The Aerospace Integration Research Centre (AIRC) fosters collaboration between industry and academia where new aerospace technologies are rapidly developed and tested.
An integrated airport control tower simulator and high-fidelity flight simulators, we can investigate the impact of the different air traffic management agents on airspace users.
Flight testing in guidance, navigation, control and surveillance is carried out in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) laboratory.
Gas turbine engineering laboratories equipped with a 2MW compressed air plant and regenerative air heater, giving the capacity of providing clean air at high pressure, temperature and flow.
Award-winning flying classrooms and laboratories offer an amazing learning experience and support innovative research.
An academic supercomputer for scientific, data analytic and machine learning applications, predictive modelling and simulation tasks, reducing the time taken to perform complex research by carrying out calculations across many processors simultaneously.
Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre: part of a £67 million project which includes a digital air traffic control centre; passenger experience laboratory; maintenance, repair and overhaul laboratory; Boeing 737 ground demonstrator aircraft; and air traffic management laboratory.